Premier factum, ou defenses de messire Philippes de La Mothe-Houdancourt duc de Cardonne, & mareschal de France, cy-devant vice-roy et capitaine general en Catalogne. Avec plusieurs requestes, arrests, & autres actes sur ce intervenus, tant au conseil, qu'ailleurs
A 1649 French legal pamphlet (factum) by Henri de La Mothe-Houdancourt, published in Paris by Louis Sevestre, defending his conduct as former viceroy of Catalonia and collecting requests and decrees from council proceedings. The pictures are historiated initials, woodcut letters V, L, S and L framed with foliage, grotesque figures, a bearded face, a bull and a seated scribe writing on a page, which a designer could use for decorative capitals and Renaissance-style ornament.
